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The Blues will have to break a spell in the cauldron of Suncorp Stadium if they are to snap the Maroons’ recent series supremacy
In a room already full of large men inside the New South Wales camp this week, sat an elephant. The team has been preparing for rugby league’s mission impossible – conjuring a Blues victory in a State of Origin decider in Brisbane on Wednesday. NSW have achieved the feat just twice in more than 40 years and it is one of rugby league’s highest mountains, a fact that so neatly encapsulates Queensland’s Origin dominance.
So a discussion, at least a passing mention of the historical significance, must have come up in the Blues preparations … right? “Not at all,” Blues winger Zac Lomax told reporters bluntly on Monday. “You can buy into the history, you can buy into the speculation of not having too much success up here, but we just need to focus on nailing our game plan, our process, and doing what it takes to win,” he said.